Pyongyang is in a bad mood - make it war mood - as it fired on Monday two short-range missiles from its east coast.

According to South Korea, the two missiles with a range of 500 kilometers were fired from Nampo and fell into the sea off the east coast.

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The firing is in protest of the joint military exercises being done by the U.S. and South Korea on the same day, reports Deutsch Welle.

A Korean People's Army spokesman described the situation in the Korean peninsula as bordering on war, which the KPA justified as its only means to cope with the U.S. aggression.

The joint military exercises have 3,700 U.S. soldiers and 200,000 South Korean troops as participants.

The largest of these drills, called Foal Eagle, would run for eight weeks and involve air, ground and naval fleet training.

North Korea warned that if a single shell falls on its territory, it would initiate counter action. But South Korea and the U.S. stressed that the joint military exercises are defensive in nature.

According to the Korean Central News Agency, North Korean leader Kim Jung Un told the country's army to prepare for war.

"The prevailing situation where a great war for national reunification is at hand requires all the KPA (Korean People's Army) units to become (elite) Guard Units fully prepared for war politically and ideologically, in military technique and materially," Kim was quoted as saying.

He has also ordered the North Korean Army to tear to pieces the Star Stripes, obviously referring to the American flag.

He aired the threats at the opening of a new hall at the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum in Pyongyang, reports AFP.

Jeung Young-Tae, analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul, that Pyongyang would initiate some kind of clash on the maritime boundary if there is particularly some sharp escalation. 

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